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The Mac Studio hit a sweet spot in 2023 that the trash can Mac Pro couldn't ten years earlier. It's mostly thanks to the high integration of Apple Silicon and improved device availability and speed of Thunderbolt.

The 2013 Mac Pro was stuck forever with its original choice of Intel CPU and AMD GPU. And it was unfortunately prone to overheating due to these same components.




The trash can also suffered from hitting the market right around when the industry gave up on making dual-GPU work.


Yep. It was designed for CPU grunt, and came out right when people swapped to wanting tons of GPU grunt.

The cooling solution wasn’t designed for huge GPUs. So it couldn’t really be upgraded in ways most people wanted.


Folks that want to keep the customisation aspect of Mac Pro hardly see that.

In fact a very famous podcaster is still holding out to his.


The Studio also hits a sweet spot for home users like me that want tons of IO and no built in input devices.




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